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Before I Die

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...to know they are not alone

Exhale

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It's as if the house knew I was relinquishing my hold on it.

How to Stop Doing and Be

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Monday will come soon enough to get/ what needs to be done, done.

Cut-offs

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The sauce is you

What I Learned From Magazines This Week

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In his heyday, Burt Reynolds owned $100,000 worth of custom-made toupees.

Barrier Island

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At the beach house

Contained

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You’re listening to Smooth FM, taking you from the darkest hours to the start of a brand new day.

Steel and Spell

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Pen or sword? Pick one/choose your battles carefully/for the paths oppose

C-ing History

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Conjure calamity and calamity comes.

One Sick, Two Sick, Red Sick, Blue Sick

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I found a diseased fish / wedged between some boulders near the pier

Open Wounds

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Where the skin had grazed, shredded by the coarse gravel to form scabs, fascinated Jack. It reminded him of his youth and his own grazes, scratches and stitches. As a boy he imagined scabs were rough foundations of igneous rock, blood like lava pouring th

In Brief

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I can admire Falling Water and find Mr. Wright a complete shit.

Easy Lessons

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A hinge in my heart is broken.

Our Last Night at the Nunnery Motel 2.0 in Milano

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They make you work For your pizza in Italy You have to slice it yourself While wearing a gas mask To ward off the cigarette smoke From every neighboring table While chasing away the Mosquitos and the pigeons The flies and the gypsy r

Still Dancing b/w Smokey Conversation

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an engine stalls out in the parking lot the driver tears her skirt coming through the door

CARTOGRAPHY

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Your brother is not really blind.

Dear Caddy

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I would advise the younger you to change your underpants, and not to let those boys do the talking for you.

M. Nerveux Chronicles: Toad Suffers a Bad Business

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Herr Toad smokin'

Falling

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Sometimes when I fall I see a ...

Tu me rends fou

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Feeding you a taste of croissant

Go ahead

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Sit right down in the chair. It's a glider, see? Smooth and easy movement without that annoying head-swing you get from a rocker. And easy to get out of, unlike a lounge chair. Relax. "Reba" reruns will be coming on in a minute.

Coming From Alabama

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In the state that the stars fell on, Love and I stumbled upon bits of God where he forgot sky and moon, too.

Figures in Disquieting Landscapes

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Tentacles hold fast to the small/ thrashing thing they believe is true// which, devoured, once crushed/ completely still, turns into shit,

Great Books of the Western Bedroom

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Artie Shaw gave Ava Gardner a reading list in preparation for their honeymoon that included The Brothers Karamazov, The Origin of the Species, Das Kapital and The Magic Mountain.

The Rocket

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Mother told me that I would go to the moon. But she did not tell me that on Diwali night, the moon hid himself on the other side of the sky.

Bunking off

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He looked like a black paper doorway pasted onto a painting of summer.

If only one more thing

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If I could say only one thing more to Tony who died a month ago, there is one thing I could find to say

A Bead Was Lost

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Fifteen

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“We could dooble date,” he said.

Esmée

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Esmée sat alone at a table on the terrace at Marina Jack’s in Sarasota. She had been there ten minutes and no waitress had approached her.